here’s an excerpt from an article about how bush explained the justification for going to war in iraq. nothing like bible-thumpers going wit their gut:

Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.

Honest. This isn’t a joke. The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers in attacking Iraq as a mission from God.

Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their “common faith” (Christianity) and told him: “Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East…. The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled…. This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins.”

“A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company’s owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company. The former employee also alleges that Prince “views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe,” and that Prince’s companies “encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life.”

this clip is like a death rattle for neocons like larry kudlow and don luskin….can’t bitch about china when THEY OWN us and continue to buy our crappy gov’t debt.

“china infiltrating our power grid is act of war” –> sorry larry/don, china infiltrating our power grid is like the FDIC making sure that banks actually have $$$ in them. We owe china a TON of money…therefore good for them for making sure our country isn’t completely collapsing.